Sooo, yesterday was our 1st day of homeschooling here at the Tobin Casa. And, after much worrying, nail biting, loss of sleep, 2nd guessing, hyperventilating and etc (more on that later), it was a success!!! can't write too much now but just wanted to say, with God's help, and a little help from my friends *insert song*, i think i can really do this. My creative juices have been starting to flow and take me back to my crafty preschool teacher days of 14 yrs ago;) Now if i could just get my DANG printer to work, we'd be golden.
It's nice to actually have a purpose everyday; goals to achieve and "deadlines" to meet. Looking back i am convicted at how much time i actually wasted all these years. Is it so hard to really sit down and do academic and Bible stuff w/ your kids for an hour or so a day?!?! yet i would put it off..."i don't want to right now; Mommy's BUSY" "I will after i do this or that", maybe tomorrow....wow.
All that to say, even though i was a bigtime slacker, and the ultimate procrastinator w/ no consistency, my kids are SMART!!! Even though i didn't have a set-apart time for learning, we are constantly doing learning activities and games, singing praise songs and children's songs in the car (until i can't take the same little kids sounding exactly the same for 5 hrs on end), doing # and letter puzzles, painting ceramics and doing crafts on occasion, and etc. So i'm grateful I have done all that. it has really helped them out in the end and M knows MUCH more than i ever dreamed, just following after brother and being there! There's so much we still need to do and train the kids to do (button a shirt, tie shoes, set table , feed the dog?? Why isn't he feeding the dog I ask?? WHY? ha) so yeah...it's nice to be pointed in a direction as i flounder thru this thing called Motherhood.
But more than anything, even in the 2 short days, or mornings, we have done school, I am coming to appreciate and love my boys even more. They are so smart and hilarious and thoughtful. Took them to the dentist and Mickey Sneeze today and they were angels. i mean, really, just awesome. wondering if it was a fluke day or that if the time i'm spending w/ them is really making an impact? i mean, they are usually good, but whiney here and there, wild sometimes, just "BOYS"...but today, so calm and sweet. Just grateful for that.
well, gotta go. M and E need naps. think i might even put E down bc he's been so tired-looking today. this school stuff, albeit easy right now, is mentally wearing him out i think--lol. he just can't hang w/ the Big Dogs yet. Speaking of dogs, Lucy is sleeping next to me and stinks to high heaven. Add that to the list!
Later Taters.
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